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I don't think the number of books is a problem in itself: I would love to have 5000 good, carefully chosen books that I want to read loaded on my ereader. But it would take me many hundreds of hours, maybe thousands of hours, of research to select those 5000 books.
But if I had 5000 books that I hadn't selected carefully, then the first thing I would do would be delete them all and only reload the ones I really wanted to read. It takes me 8-12 hours to read most books, so I think it is worth spending 20-30 minutes per book researching to find one worth reading (and another 5-10 minutes fixing publishing mistakes to make the reading experience a better one).
If the choice of books is not the problem, then maybe it would help to get away from the other distractions. I walk the local bush tracks, or take a trip to a national park. But sometimes I don't do a lot of actual walking, I just find a nice spot to to settle in and read. No WiFi, often not even cellphone coverage (not that I take my cellphone).
One of my best reading experiences ever was being snowed in for two days in a shelter by myself on Mt Egmont, it was before I got my ereader but I had brought Warren Norwood's The Windhover Tapes and someone else had left a copy of Wilbur Smith's The Diamond Hunters in the shelter. If I didn't have the books it would have been an awful boring two days, but with them it turned out to be one of the best parts of the trip.
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